RufflesTheGuineaPig

Wahoo! Someone who gets it!

The idea of bringing immigrants in to work and pay taxes is perfectly viable, with 2 minor caveats: 1 - There are no jobs 2 - There ARE NO jobs. Now I know technically that's only 1 problem, but I thought it was so important, it was worth mentioning twice.

The problem is that as they have paid their pension contributions, and were told the government was paying IT'S contributions, as far these workers are concerned it IS fully funded. The fact that a generation took both the employees and employers contributions and spent them on a tax cut is largely irrelevant. I don't and haven't worked in the public sector, but it's not about entitlements, it's about contracts. If you hired a builder to build you an extension and then at the end when they have finished said "oh sorry, I just realised I spend all the money meant to pay you on a holiday and some new pot-plants" you would rightly be taken to court and have your assets stripped. Likewise the solution is to have those who received the benefits pick up the bill. The current 2 proposed solution are to either tell the builder they aren't getting paid as it would cut their your holiday spending money or get their kids to take out a loan to pay off the builders.

It's worth adding that food prices have taken a bit of a knock back because of the horse meat scandal.

Why not just standardise sales taxes across all states and be done with it?

It's win-win for the tories it they do it pre-election. Shares lose money - blame labour for losing £24bn. Free shares for the public... free money, vote for us!

Let someone else spend all the money and move in once the public has accepted it.

I remember a great pool bar opened on Park Street. Good food, fair beers, great tables. At first they did great. Then the Muslim lads heard about it. They'de turn up, buy a coke and make it last all night and hog all the tables from 6pm until closing time. The staff couldn't move them on without being accused of being racist. Needless to say, the place went bust. The only reason Rileys has survived is because they whacked up the per-hour table charges.

Correct. Extracting it will cost X. Fighting the NIMBYs will cost X times 3. It's just not worth the hassle.

I think you'll find the US was getting a lot more in reparations than it spent.

I would guess that equates to about a third of the annual council tax. Given that a third of people probably get their council tax paid by the taxpayer, that means half the actual payers aren't paying?

It was the inevitable result of the Greek "bail-out." I explained at the time that it wasn't "bankers" who were losing money in the right off, it was ordinary savers and pension holders. But everyone on here said it was magic money made out of thin air and that I was talking rubbish. Hopefully after what happened in Cyprus we wont here any more of this "bank make money out of thin air" ruubish on here.

HFT is simply fraud and should be banned outright. It allows the big bank to steal money from small investors... nothing more than that.

Yes again, I have to point out that this zero sum thing is a load of crap. It's unlikely to be circular. Eventually there will be someone at either end of the chain. People like to think these things are circular and resolve themselves because it make them feel more secure. In reality, from experience we know it's not the case. We know this, because the US government had to give a certain investment bank hundreds of billions of dollars to cover derivatives liabilities they had taken on and not covered.

This is the problem. Buyer has only 1 supplier, but strangely, the buyer still sets the prices.

I remind you all the Tony Blair isn't an ambassador for the UK, or a representative. He's just someone who travels the world hoping foreigners wont realise h's not prime-minister any more.

Councils and private residents demand a cheaper service. Care homes can't provide a service at that price. Care homes close. Prices should just have risen until it was financially viable. There was clearly some sort of market manipulation by councils... along the lines of "this is what we are paying and you legally have to provide a service".

There's plenty of gas, it just costs far more per unit to extract than it did 30 years ago. It's only worth extracting now gas prices are high enough.

Buying cars - Haggling is unlikely to beat prices from someone like broadspeed - who basically have done the haggling for you already, playing off dealers nationwide against each other. The catch is you wont be able to do part-ex. Another useful thing to note - if you are buying on ebay using "buy it now", check the "best offer" options. A lot of cases where things are listed with a fixed price you can easily get 10% off, often more if you are looking to buy several.

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Broadspeed would sell you a brand new one for an extra £750. AFAIK, Broadspeed works by asking all the UK dealers in it's "network" for the best price they will offer on various models, and prices based on the best offer from all the dealers.

It may just be that google have improved their detection methods for fake hits.

T think that's the idea.

FLS hasn't been increasing funding, it's just been reducing the banks funding costs. Banks aren't lending because of lack of funding, they aren't lending because they don't think they'll get it back.

If you read it, it's just scaremongering. It's 29 years between 12 contracts, not 29 years each. That's less then 2.5 years on average.